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AAAI
2012
11 years 7 months ago
Robust Cuts Over Time: Combatting the Spread of Invasive Species with Unreliable Biological Control
Widespread accounts of the harmful effects of invasive species have stimulated both practical and theoretical studies on how the spread of these destructive agents can be containe...
Gwen Spencer
FOCS
2009
IEEE
14 years 1 days ago
Dynamic and Non-uniform Pricing Strategies for Revenue Maximization
We consider the Item Pricing problem for revenue maximization in the limited supply setting, where a single seller with n items caters to m buyers with unknown subadditive valuati...
Tanmoy Chakraborty, Zhiyi Huang, Sanjeev Khanna
IROS
2006
IEEE
104views Robotics» more  IROS 2006»
13 years 11 months ago
Landmark Selection for Task-Oriented Navigation
—Many vision-based navigation systems are restricted to the use of only a limited number of landmarks when computing the camera pose. This limitation is due to the overhead of de...
Ronen Lerner, Ehud Rivlin, Ilan Shimshoni
FOCS
2007
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Mechanism Design via Differential Privacy
We study the role that privacy-preserving algorithms, which prevent the leakage of specific information about participants, can play in the design of mechanisms for strategic age...
Frank McSherry, Kunal Talwar
PPSN
2000
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
Optimizing through Co-evolutionary Avalanches
Abstract. We explore a new general-purpose heuristic for nding highquality solutions to hard optimization problems. The method, called extremal optimization, is inspired by self-or...
Stefan Boettcher, Allon G. Percus, Michelangelo Gr...